Opinion

March 27, 2023

The real value of large language models like GPT-4 isn’t in writing, it’s reading

All of the attention around large language models has focused on its ability to write — but could reading be where the potential lies?


OpenAI’s move into open source is set to heighten competition for European AI champion Mistral

Logically we can state with confidence that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters would eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. That's all very well for the monkeys, but it's not actually that useful to humans.

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Christopher Brennan

Christopher Brennan is the cofounder of AI startup Overtone.

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